Shide railway station

Shide
Shide corner (2018); the station stood on the site of the tyre depot to the right
General information
Location	Shide, Isle of Wight England
Grid reference	SZ504882
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway
Pre-grouping	Isle of Wight Central Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1 February 1875	Opened
6 February 1956	Closed
Location

Shide railway station was at Shide, on the southern fringes of Newport, Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. It was an intermediate station ^[1] on the line from Newport to Sandown, which was initially operated by the Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway (incorporated 1868). ^[2]

History

Shide station opened in 1875 and closed, along with the line itself, in 1956. ^[3] Situated near Shide Chalk Pits, ^[4] it was a sparsely used station whose main purpose was to transport raw materials needed for the Island’s cement industry. ^[5] It was doomed when production ceased during the Second World War. ^[6] The station site was built over ^[7] and is now occupied by a warehouse, and the River Medina has since been diverted to flow along the course of the old railway at this point. The old track to the south of the station site is now a cycle route (NCN23).

Stationmasters

• George Ranger ca. 1886 ^[8]
• Samuel John Urry ca. 1899 ca. 1901 (afterwards station master at Calbourne)
• George Hayward ca. 1915

A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Blackwater		British Railways Southern Region IoW CR  : Sandown to Newport line		Newport
		Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway (become part of IWCR in 1887)		Pan Lane

See also

• List of closed railway stations in Britain

References

1. Except for seven months between February and August 1875 when it was the terminus of the fledgling railway company
2. Bennett, A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 ISBN   1-870754-31-X
3. Hay, P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst, Middleton, 1988 ISBN   0-906520-56-8
4. Pomeroy, C. A., "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford, Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN   0-947971-62-9
5. Britton, A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 ISBN   0-86093-513-2
6. Paye, Peter (1984). Isle of Wight Railways remembered. Oxford: OPC. ISBN   0-86093-212-5.
7. Gammell C.J "Southern Branch Lines": Oxford, OPC, 1997 ISBN   0-86093-537-X
8. "NewPort Borough Police" . Isle of Wight County Press and South of England Reporter. England. 6 November 1886. Retrieved 25 July 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.

External links

• History of Shide Chalk Pit

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